A New Chapter

Hello, my crafty friends!

Ok, so I didn't plan to be gone quite this long...  As many of you know, my last post was, understandably, a bit of a bummer. And I've felt guilty that such a sad post has been the first thing visitors have seen for the past three months. I thought I would be ok... writing that post about Olisa made it seem like it happened to someone else. I felt better after writing it. And she was "just a dog". Except that she wasn't. And I must have still been in shock a bit. Or maybe denial. Christmas didn't seem very jolly.  And I spent a lot of time avoiding the craftroom over the next month afterwards when I realized how quiet everything was without her. I would sit here and the silence would be deafening. Even watching movies it didn't feel right. The "wrong" dog was at my feet, and there was no whuffling and sleep-running, barking at noises from the neighbors or the snowplows, or 30,000 trips to the bathroom for a drink. (Out of the water bowl on the floor. What were you thinking?) I never realized how much noise she made until all of it was gone.

Anyway, I decided to spend January organizing my thoughts for the next year. I hate the whole new year's resolutions thing, but still, it was as good a time as any to think about what I wanted because 2013 and 2014 were NOT what I wanted. At all. So, organize my thoughts, I did. I thought I would be back in February, but time, illness (mutant flu and ornery chest colds that turn into bronchitis were prevalent at work this year - I got the latter), and a bit of a dead mojo battery were against me. I was sick with that nasty cough for two and a half weeks.

Now that I can breathe again, the craftroom is organized, and my mind seems to be on a certain path instead of wandering all over the world inside my head, I am ready to go! Changes are coming... the first to my blogs. As we all know, some of my blogposts tend to ramble juuuuuust a tad. I've noticed myself that I follow so many blogs that it's hard to get to everything. I missed reading for less than a week and I have 1000 blogposts that I missed. Let's not even get into Facebook, YouTube and Instagram, although I do better with Instagram. More "insta" I guess. Anyhoo, this year I'm trying for short and sweet. (After THIS post, obviously. LOL)  But I decided to give myself an outlet for my prattle. Not to mention a place to post my experiences trying out new techniques, new coloring mediums, and even new crafts beyond papercrafting. I'd really like to learn to knit. Or crochet more than just a never-ending chainstitch. LOL

My new blog, Christy Beans' Crafty Journey, will be sort of a diary for my artistic journey; this blog will be where I post my finished work to the "digital fridge". I hope that some of you will join me from time to time on my journey... it's always good to have crafty companions along. =)

Whether you only check in for a peek at the fridge, or you travel along with me on my crafty journey, I appreciate each and every one of you stopping by.

Happy crafting and I will see you very soon!
Christy

PS I can't bear not to have a picture in this post, so here's one of my finished crafty bits from last week!